Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer)

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	IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) Google Drive is here! You can now download the cloudy hard drive, which comes with 5 GB for free. As expected, Google is going head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive, and a gaggle of others, but it's not quite available for everyone yet. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers' heads spin at a plethora of cloud storage choices. Not to mention: Saving Prince of Persia's 1989-era Source Code ... Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM An Oracle / DB2 Task Complexity Analysis A must read, this study dives into six common DBA administration task areas, showing quantitatively that DB2 offers simpler administration and helps achieve time savings as compared to Oracle Database. Read Now In this Issue Sharon Machlis: Farewell Google Charts (well, some of them) Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple's Tim Cook to Google 'Switch off your photocopiers' Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like mating a fridge with a toaster Darlene Storm: Interview with Ed Skoudis: SANS Cyber Guardians hack to help America win the cyberwar Josh Stephens: Results from Geek Day 2012 in Washington D.C. Robert L. Mitchell: Office Live Small Business: A horror story Shark Tank: Somebody's unclear on a whole lot of concepts WHITE PAPER: Imation Scalable Storage ESG Market Report: The Value and Logic of a Tiered Archive A tiered archive allows dynamic control over how your data is accessed-ensuring the right data is available in the right place at the right time. Learn how a tiered storage solution can help your business realize excellent reliability, protection and compliance in the face of extreme data growth. View Now Sharon Machlis: Farewell Google Charts (well, some of them) Google announced a phaseout of several of its free services, including its Google Chart Tools -- but not the Chart Tools API. Read on for more details, and some ideas for a replacement. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple's Tim Cook to Google 'Switch off your photocopiers' "I would highly prefer to settle than to battle," Cook told analysts after last night's Apple financial call. But that's not an admission the company knows it can't fight on, it's the sad shrug of a reluctant warrior, prepared to fight, but ready to make peace. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like mating a fridge with a toaster Apple's Tim Cook took time out from Apple's earnings call to give a sideways slam to Windows 8, saying that Microsoft's attempt to get it to work on PCs and tablets was like trying to mate a refrigerator with a toaster. Read More WHITE PAPER: Box Content Sharing 2.0: The Road Ahead The business value proposition of cloud-based content sharing is in lockstep with the most powerful drivers of IT and business today. Learn More! Darlene Storm: Interview with Ed Skoudis: SANS Cyber Guardians hack to help America win the cyberwar Did you know we have Cyber Guardians who protect the world from cybercrime? These Red Team and Blue Team elite cybersecurity professionals are like the Navy Seals, only behind a computer and hacking for America. In this interview, SANS Ed Skoudis talks about the need for more cyber warriors and the SANS Cyber Guardian program. Read More Josh Stephens: Results from Geek Day 2012 in Washington D.C. Last week I was out in Washington D.C. presenting at Geek Day. It's a trade show and networking event focused on IT professionals (geeks) in both the public and private sectors. As you would imagine, I couldn't resist the opportunity to do some live polling while I had a captive audience. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Office Live Small Business: A horror story I thought I had plenty of time to get my Web site off Microsoft OLSB, which goes dark this Monday. Boy was I wrong. Read More Shark Tank: Somebody's unclear on a whole lot of concepts Call from a client wakes up this IT pilot fish in the middle of the night: A key application won't start, and it needs fixing, pronto. Turns out SQL Server is seriously borked -- but that's not the only problem. Read More
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